Quotes about prayer
prayer real praying
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. Gordon B. Hinckley
prayer father answers
Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
prayer real father
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
prayer wine moon
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. Geraldine Brooks
prayer soul draws
Prayer draws us near to our own souls. Herman Melville
prayer father eye
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
prayer men might
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
prayer religion church
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad. Henry David Thoreau
prayer sick doe
God does not hear the prayers of a Jew. Jerry Falwell
prayer religion atheism
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
prayer believe answers
I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew
prayer
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing. Eugene H. Peterson
prayer refusal
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
prayer want-something risk
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
prayer night lasts
I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night. Etty Hillesum
prayer taken simple
Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict. Erwin W. Lutzer
prayer love-life feelings
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. Ernest Holmes
prayer creative patterns
With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.
prayer people want
The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God. Florence Scovel Shinn
prayer school littles
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible. Florence King
prayer character gambling
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too. Fisher Stevens
prayer men may
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer! Henry Martyn
prayer refreshments
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded. Henry Miller
prayer recovery mean
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light. Cat Stevens
prayer book tea
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ... Catharine Beecher
prayer reflection roots
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? George Eliot
prayer wish ends
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
prayer command
The gift of prayer is not always at our command. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
prayer grateful perfect
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
prayer grateful heart
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust
prayer night three
I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much. Jackie Evancho
prayer swimming sea
The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once. James G. Frazer
prayer attitude heart
Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart. Iyanla Vanzant